Safety angle-bar.



s. I. ROUTLBDGE.

SAFETY ANGLE BAR.

APPLICATION FILED HA3. 18, '1910,

Patented Dec. 27, 1910.

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SIMPSON J. ROUTLEDGE, OF ENSLEY, ALABAMA.

SAFETY ANGLE-BAR.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 27, 1910.

Application filed March 18, 1910. Serial No. 550,142.

T 0 all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIMPSON J. Rour- LEDGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ensley, in the county of Jefferson and State of Alabama, have invented new and useful Improvements in Safety Angle-Bars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an angle bar for railroad oints.

The object of the invention is to provide an angle bar adapted to be used in connection with an ordinary fish plate, the said angle bar being provided with a detachable key member which is adapted to serve as a securing means for the nuts of the connecting bolts, and embodies other novel features of construction which will be hereinafter fully set forth.

With the above objects in view, the .invention resides in the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings there has been illustrated a simple and preferred embodiment of the improvement and in which drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of the meeting ends of a pair of railway rails provided with myimprovement. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view upon the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

In the accompanying drawings, the numeral l designates the meeting ends of a pair of railway rails. These rails 1 are of the ordinary construction, comprising a head 2, base flanges 3 and connecting web 1.

Each of the rails has its web provided with a plurality of openings, the same being adapted for the reception of securing bolts 5 having the ordinary retaining nuts 6.

The numeral 7 designates a fish plate of the ordinary construction which is positioned adjacent to the webs of the rails upon one side thereof and which is adapted to receive the head portions of the bolts 5. P0- sitioned upon the opposite sides of the rails is my improved angle bar 8. This bar 8 comprises a horizontal straight portion or base 9 and an integrally formed vertical member 10. The vertical member 10 is provided with a plurality of openings coinciding with the openings of the webs of the rails and of the fish plates, the said openings being adapted for the reception of the threaded portions of the bolts 5. The base 9 of the angle bar has its outer edge provided with an integrally formed longitudi nally extending undercut lip 11, the same having its inner wall or edge 12 beveled or inclined downwardly toward the outer edge of the said base member 9. The lip 11 is provided with a plurality of notches 13 upon its inner edge, and its notches are adapted to aline with suitable openings 14; provided in the base member 9. The vertical portion 10 of the angle bar 8 is adapted to engage with the webs of the rails and the base member 9 is adapted to overlie the base flanges 3 of the rails. The base flanges 3 are provided with openings 15, the same alining with the openings 14 and notches 13 of the angle bar 8.

The numeral 16 designates the key of the angle bar. This key 16 comprises a longitudinal member of a'length corresponding to the length of the angle bar 8, and the said key has one of its faces inclined or beveled as at 17 to correspond with the inclined wall 12 of the overlying lip 11. The top wall of the key 16 is also slightly beveled toward its opposite edge as indicated by the numeral 18. The beveled or inclined portion 17 of the key 16 is provided with suitable notches 19, the same being adapted to aline with the notches 13 provided in the overlying lip 11 and the openings 14 in the base portion of the angle bar.

Briefly stated the method of connecting the key to the angle bar is as follows The nuts 6 are screwed home upon the bolts 5and the key 16 is positioned adjacent one end of the base 9, its inclined edge 17 being in alinement with the inclined wall 12 of the lip 11. A suitable implement such as a hammer is employed to force the key upon the base and beneath the nuts 6. The inclined upper wall 18 of the said key engages the nuts causing the same to revolve until their under faces assume a substantially horizontal position. When the key has been driven its full length so that its notches 19 aline with the notches 13 of the overlying lip 11, suitable spikes 20 are inserted within the openings provided by the said notches and the openings 14 of the angle bar as well as the openings 15 .of the base flanges of the rails.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is In combination with the meeting ends of a pair of rails, a base plate having bolts and .nuts therefor, of an angle bar, said angle bar having its horizontal straight base away port-ions adapted to aline with the portion provided with an undercut lip upon cut-away portions of the lip, the top of the its outer edge, the inner Wall of the said lip key member being inclined, all substantially being inclined. the inner edge of the lip beas and for the purpose set forth. 5 ing provided with a plurality of cut-away In testimony whereof I affix my signature 15 portions, the base of the angle bar having in presence of two witnesses.

openings alining with the said out-away por- SIMPSON J. ROUTLEDGE. tion, a key for the angle bar, said key eom- Witnesses: prising a rectangular member having one of R. W. NrooLLs,

10 its edges beveled and provided with cut- J. H. PERKINS. 

